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A laptop and camp table set up on the yurt deck overlooking the San Juan Mountains, a speaker, water bottle, and coffee mug on the table
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July 17, 2026
It's Writing Itself
Today's entry stays private for now. A quieter stretch ahead, maybe a video in the works. The story keeps writing itself.
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Aerial drone shot looking down at the Sprinter van, roof deck with solar panels and a rooftop box, standing through the open side door behind a mesh screen, holding a water jug
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July 16, 2026
Right on Time
The battery hits 14%, mirroring three days of running himself just as hard. Then the story of how Hi-Fi Lonesome started: two days to learn the gear before a gig at Betty's Grill in Nashville.
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A mug of coffee with ghee held up against a dawn view of the San Juan Mountains from the deck, a white bathrobe sleeve in frame
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July 15, 2026
The Rolling Blackout
Eleven hours straight on music, no food until 9:30pm. Then the battery hits 20% and today belongs to whatever doesn't need electricity.
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Portrait on a wooden deck at sunset, orange alpenglow lighting the pine forest and ridgeline behind, red beanie and sunglasses, a solar panel on a folding table nearby
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July 14, 2026
The Baby in the Marketplace
9,123 feet, and the body still isn't adapting, nearly double what UFC fighters train at. Then a night sky game comes together, and a song shows up that gets played on repeat for hours.
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// interviews
Aerial drone shot looking down at Layng standing between solar panels beside his Sprinter van, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.
LAYNG: On Nomadic Life
Nine questions on life as a nomad in the American West. June 4, 2026 · Silverton, Colorado.
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A Hike to Clear Lake
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What a Time
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It Was a Dream
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// field guides
FIELD GUIDES
Interactive guides to the places and topics on the road. The Night Sky. Red Rocks. Colorado Wildfires. More on the way.
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THE NIGHT SKY
The constellations were never meant to be pictures. Who really named the sky, why it changes by the hour and the month, and the star-hopping routes that unlock the darkest sky in the lower 48.
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TELLURIDE
A name that doesn't mean what it implies, a bank robbery that made a legend, and an 1891 electricity experiment that helped decide how the country would get powered.
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RED ROCKS
The tunnel backstage holds decades of artist signatures responding to each other across time. The Beatles played to empty seats. The WPA road crew found Stegosaurus next door. The rocks are 296 million years old.
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COLORADO WILDFIRES
Six fires, 125,000 acres, three firefighters dead this week. The red stuff planes drop isn't what you think. Firenadoes are real. And most of this traces back to a 1935 policy decision.
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